Indian Summer Private Blend is Waiana Estate’s premier Rosé blend. Post fermentation the grapes have been left on lees and then barrel aged to add complexity and weight. Waiana have focused on promoting minerality in this elegant blend, which will continue to evolve over time.

This is the flagship Rosé from the Plowman family and their Waiana Estate winemaking team. A step beyond their Indian Summer and Summer Sault Rosés, this classically dry, Provençale style is crafted from a blend of Tukituki Valley-grown Merlot and Cinsault which has been left, post-ferment, on its yeast lees for a stretch and then matured in 3 year old large oak puncheons to impart extra complexity, palate weight and “I’m bloody awesome-ness” into it. It’s a rare thing to find such attention to detail in Rosé construction in this country in order for it to hit this price point, but it’s been perfectly executed here. It’s a Rosé to be savoured over something delicate like salmon nigiri or classic Caprese salad. Yvonne Lorkin

Waiana Estate is the specialist Rosé label of the Plowman family who have 5.26 ha of vines on their 25 ha Tukituki Valley estate in Hawke’s Bay. The Plowmans intention is to produce Rosé that stands among the best in the country and alongside the best Provencal-styled examples.